Father's Day gifts

If your dad is anything like my dad, he is hard to shop for and already has everything he wants. This makes Father's Day not so fun for the gift givers. However, we came up with some cool gifts that my parents have loved over the years (these could be altered to work for anyone special in your life- mother, grandparents, etc.) I thought I'd share these now since they take some leg work to prepare and father's day is a few weeks away.

1) a favorite memories book. Have each person giving the gift contribute a few of their favorite memories, stories or lessons learned from or about that person. We did this for my dad years ago and each of my siblings and mom wrote 5 or 6 stories down about dad when he did that crazy thing on that vacation or how he always did our hair in dipsy-doodles when he gave us baths as kids or how he taught us the value of work that summer when we put in our backyard, etc. We added photos and made it on shutterfly or some other website that makes books. Everyone pitched in a few bucks and we all read him our stories on Father's day out loud (by phone or in person as a group) as we gave him the book. He LOVED it and it really told him how much we loved him and how much he had impacted our lives.

2) a "Things I love about you" book. Have each person write down 5 things they love about the person and make a similar book above (you don't even have to include pictures.)

3) a testimony book. Have everyone write down their testimony and include a picture of themselves. Make a book and bind it. (We liked doing it via shutterfly because these were so precious that more than 1 person wanted copies and they were easy to add to the order with not much more work.) Easy family history work made fun.

Happy gifting.
Melissa